This work looks beyond the towering figure of Martin Luther King, Jr, to disclose the workings of the organization that supported him. It shows how Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Wyatt Walker, and others played a hand in the triumphs of Selma and Birmingham and the frustrations of Albany and Chicago.再讀一些...

The preachers and the people : the origins of SCLC --
The fallow years : 1957-1959 --
Sit-ins and freedom rides --
First battle : the Albany campaign --
Breakthrough at Birmingham --
Summer of discontent, autumn of tragedy --
Desegregation : keeping up the pressure --
All the way with LBJ --
Selma --
The crisis of victory --
Defeat in Chicago --
"Black power!" --
The politics of peace --
Mobilizing the poor --
The Abernathy years.

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Adam Fairclough.

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"Splendidly researched, cogently articulated...May well represent the finest single piece of published scholarship on the American Civil Rights Movement." - Choice